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ADDRESS 

TO THE 

Connecticut Society of Cincinnati 

ON THE 

DEATH 

OF 

GEORGE WASHINGTON 

By 
BENJAMIN TALLMADGE. 



Brooklyn, JV. Y. 
Privately Printed 

1885. 






IN EXCHANGE 

JUN 27 1"I2 




To the Members of the Connecticut 
State Society of the Ci?icijinati. 

Deeply impressed with a sense 
of the irreparable loss which U - 
nited America and the world have 
sustained in the death of the- il- 
lusti'ious Washington — by the 
unanimous advice of the members 
of the Cincinnati Society present, 
I do hereby particularly recomend 
to all the members of that be - 
nevolent institution residing within 
the State of Connecticut, that they 

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wear crape on their left arms, 
especially on all public occasions, 
until the next anniversary of our 
Independence, as a token of re- 
spect for the memory and virtues 
of that Man, who, while livincr. 
was the most beloved and now 
dead, will be the most universally 
lamented. If our country at large 
unite in bemoaning- the loss of 
this first of Patriots, and best of 
Men, surely those who have fought 
under his banners, shared in his 
fatigues, and participated in his 
glory, can never forget the Hero 
of our late revolution, the able 
advocate of our dignity and in - 
dependence. and the illustrious 
President General of our Society. 

Benjamin 



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Benjamin Tallmadge 
President of the Cincinnati 
Society, 

State of Connecticut. 
Litchfield, Dec. 30, 1799. 




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